The Great Jobs Mismatch – Newsweek

The Great Jobs Mismatch – Newsweek

” third of companies still faced shortages. These were largest for engineers and scientists and among aerospace, defense and biotechnology firms.”

“For skilled blue-collar jobs, high schools have de-emphasized vocational training, community colleges often aren’t well-connected to local job markets and union apprenticeship programs have withered.”

“Companies traditionally provided much training, but that may also have changed. …Before, firms provided more basic training in business or technology skills; now, firms expect workers to come with these skills and focus training on firm-specific practices and systems.”

um, duh

Brow Beat : Bring Me Tina Fey’s Head on a Popsicle Stick!

Brow Beat : Bring Me Tina Fey's Head on a Popsicle Stick!

The querent clearly hadn’t been paying attention when Fey wrote that the rudest thing you can ask a woman is, “How do you juggle it all?”)

If Fey was ticked off, she hid it well. She did say she loathes the question, though, because it’s only ever targeted to female performers. When she was promoting Date Night with Steve Carell—a father of two and star of his own NBC sitcom—reporters would ask Fey how she balanced her life, but never Carell.

I love her

Could Weiner make a comeback? – CNN.com

Could Weiner make a comeback? – CNN.com

blah, blah, blah.
when did we become such a bunch of prying, snooping, gleefully revelling in other’s sexual peccadillos ninnies?

the only sentient state in the article or in any of the coverage I’ve seen is this

Others caught in scandal have ridden out the rest of their terms; for instance, the FBI found $90,000 in former Louisiana Rep. William Jefferson’s freezer in a probe of bribery and corruption, and he ended up convicted on those charges, but Democrats didn’t call for his head as they did with Weiner. Similarly, Louisiana Sen. David Vitter was implicated in a prostitution-ring scandal, and not only didn’t resign but ended up getting re-elected to the Senate.